Example sentences of "try [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 2 | Carlson tried to steady himself . |
| 3 | He slipped on the stairs and smashed a glass panel as he tried to steady himself . |
| 4 | He slipped on the stairs and smashed a glass panel as he tried to steady himself . |
| 5 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 6 | The 27-year-old former Army officer tried to kill himself less than 24 hours before he was due in court again accused of murdering his parents at their home in Jersey . |
| 7 | He suffered such terrible symptoms he tried to kill himself . |
| 8 | He tried to kill himself . |
| 9 | ‘ Who lives there in splendour so solitary that in June nineteen forty-one he jumped from a balcony and tried to kill himself . |
| 10 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 11 | Soon after the disaster he tried to kill himself . |
| 12 | Neil Todd 's parents called in the police after the teenager tried to kill himself . |
| 13 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 14 | He decided to try to provide himself with a little more scope for an escape bid . |
| 15 | He inadvisedly tried to launch himself very briefly in Hollywood . |
| 16 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 17 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 18 | He tried to pull himself forward , branch to branch , but with his hands bound , he lost ground each time he grabbed for a fresh hold . |
| 19 | He twisted to shield himself , tried to pull himself round and use that big machine-gun he had carried for so long . |
| 20 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 21 | He tried to pull himself together , but it was impossible . |
| 22 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 23 | Dougal tried to distract himself from what he was doing by treating the wounds as a mental puzzle . |
| 24 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 25 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 26 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 27 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 28 | But now he tried to calm himself : there was no reason for nerves , he told himself . |
| 29 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 30 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |